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Earthquake: Earthquake Intensity

Description

The Earthquake data frame has 182 rows and 5 columns.

source

Pinheiro, J. C. and Bates, D. M. (2000), Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS, Springer, New York. (Appendix A.8)

Davidian, M. and Giltinan, D. M. (1995), Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data, Chapman and Hall, London.

Joyner and Boore (1981), Peak horizontal acceleration and velocity from strong-motion records including records from the 1979 Imperial Valley, California, earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 71, 2011-2038.

Brillinger, D. (1987), Comment on a paper by C. R. Rao, Statistical Science, 2, 448-450.

Details

Measurements recorded at available seismometer locations for 23 large earthquakes in western North America between 1940 and 1980. They were originally given in Joyner and Boore (1981); are mentioned in Brillinger (1987); and are analyzed in Davidian and Giltinan (1995).